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Re:An Update on Leap Seconds by someguydave on Monday January 30, 2023 @07:59AM (#34579022)
“Civil time” is an inherently political concept. There is no way that humans can coordinate globally on that concept without unwieldy treaty organizations.
Re:An Update on Leap Seconds by BlueTemplar on Monday January 30, 2023 @01:40PM (#34584390)
It's also not something that even needs to be coordinated globally. This whole thing seems to be a giant confusion between the concepts of time and calendar (including timezones), and I am not sure why it is still ongoing even though the time coordination problem has been seemingly solved thanks to atomic clocks for some decades now ??